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May 20, 2014

Abramson Salutes Anita Hill in Wake Forest Commencement Speech 
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Jill Abramson has delivered the commencement address at Wake Forest
University in North Carolina, just days after she was fired as executive
editor of The New York Times. Abramson was the first woman to hold the
post and had reportedly complained about making less than her male
predecessor. In her address, she discussed how she co-authored a book
about Anita Hill, who testified about sexual harassment by then-Supreme
Court nominee Clarence Thomas before an all-white, all male Senate panel
in 1991.

Jill Abramson: "The senators portrayed her as being, as one of her
detractors so delicately put it, a little bit nutty and a little bit
slutty. She turned that potential humiliation into a great career
teaching at Brandeis University and writing books that tell truth to
power. Anita was one of the many people who wrote to me last week to say
they are proud of me. Those messages are so appreciated."

 

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